Category: Fiction

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 10 – Today’s vocabulary word: notions I stared into my closet, waiting for it to solve all my problems, but it only invented more. I didn’t have the wardrobe for a convincing fake engagement. Not helping: my mother, yammering on about my flaws and

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 9 – Today’s vocabulary word: pure ‘I know it’s only nine thirty,’ Jamie Rouselle sang as she swept into my classroom, ‘but I need you to feed me.’ I dropped my phone, pushed up from my desk, and clasped my hands behind my back

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 8 – Today’s vocabulary word: pressure Audrey: I’m going to send some flowers to your mother on the day of the engagement party she’s hosting but I wanted to check if she has any allergies or sensitivities first. I stared at her message in

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 7 – Today’s vocabulary word: transition I could admit when mistakes were made. Returning to Hartford, showing up at that reunion, asking Audrey to help me out—I knew I was chasing trouble going in but the enormity of it didn’t register until her first

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 6 – Today’s vocabulary word: litigate I couldn’t decide if this was simple jealousy or the kind of old, desperate longing that sat in your bones and refused to budge. It twisted somewhere deep in my belly, a feeling equal parts familiar and unwelcome.

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 5 – Today’s vocabulary word: nostalgia I woke up to a message from my mother reminding me (again) about my lunch date. Today’s sacrifice was a guy who’d graduated from Aldyn Thorpe several years ahead of me and had made some kind of fortune

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 4 – Today’s vocabulary word: initiate I gave Audrey a head start but I didn’t let her out of my sight. I knew better than to make that mistake twice. She cut a wide arc around the back of the tent and vanished into

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 3 – Today’s vocabulary word: ascend It shouldn’t have surprised me when Jude raked an impatient glare from my shoes up to the hair I wore loose around my shoulders, and the first words from him in years landed like a kill shot. ‘Your

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 2 – Present day Today’s vocabulary word: cede One thing that was true about me was that I had a near-perfect track record of making the wrong decision when it mattered the most. I was not a cool head in a crisis…or even medium-stress

Read In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3) By Kate Canterbary Chapter 1 – Twelve years ago Today’s vocabulary word: steady ‘Could I possibly get a sip of water?’ Or something harder? The wedding planner’s lead assistant peered up at me from her knees, both brows cocked like I’d asked for a whole blueberry pie. ‘I don’t think